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How Air Traffic Controllers Helped End the Shutdown — and Changed History

It shows that labor still has some power, at least when public opinion is on its side.
by Joseph A. McCartin via Washington Post on January 26, 2019

Before Black Lung, the Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster Killed Hundreds

A forgotten example of the dangers of silica, the toxic dust behind the modern black lung epidemic in Appalachia.
by Adelina Lancianese via NPR on January 20, 2019
Row of suburban houses.

The Myth of "We Don't Build Houses Like We Used To"

The comment lament misses crucial context about the style trends and building materials of the past.
by Kate Wagner via Curbed on January 16, 2019
Border patrol guarding a group of men sitting on the ground.
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A Wall Can’t Solve America’s Addiction to Undocumented Immigration

For more than 70 years, undocumented immigrants have shaped the American economy.
by Julia G. Young via Made By History on January 9, 2019
Trump looks at border wall construction prototypes.
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The Hole in Donald Trump’s Wall

As long as Americans continue to flood into Mexico, the wall will do little to deter crossings.
by Tore C. Olsson via Made By History on January 9, 2019
Detail from the newsletter "Interrupt," featuring a raised fist and the slogan "Computers serve the landlords."

Mainframe, Interrupted

A member of the 1960s-70s collective Computer People for Peace talks about the early days of tech worker organizing.
by Joan Greenbaum, Jen Kagan via Logic on January 7, 2019

Make Ford Great Again

For now, yesterday is where the money is.
by Daniel Albert via n+1 on December 2, 2018

Prophets of War

Telegraph operators were the first to know news of the Civil War.
by Jason Phillips via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 23, 2018

An Alternative History of Silicon Valley Disruption

Three recent books challenge the tech industry's myths of self-reliance and prescience.
by Nitasha Tiku via Wired on October 22, 2018

America’s Missing Labor Party

The history of labor strikes shows that, in order to achieve lasting success, workers need to capture political power.
by David Sessions via The New Republic on October 2, 2018

The Origins of Prison Slavery

How Southern whites found replacements for their emancipated slaves in the prison system.
by Shane Bauer via Slate on October 2, 2018
Rail yard in Chicago.

Jack Delano's Color Photos of Chicago's Rail Yards in the 1940s

A handful of images from Chicago as it was some 75 years ago.
by Alan Taylor via The Atlantic on October 2, 2018

Green and Pleasant Land

A review of four books that all deal with the long-lasting contradictions between the mythology and reality of farming.
by Verlyn Klinkenborg via New York Review of Books on September 26, 2018

The Environmental Roots of Jim Crow in Coastal South Carolina

On the origins of the Lost Cause of the Lowcountry.
by Caroline Grego via Environmental History Now on September 13, 2018
Cartoon depiction of a labor strike

“Labor Day” Isn’t Labor Day

The annual worker’s holiday in the rest of the world is May Day. Why not here?
by Sam Wallman via The Nib on September 3, 2018
Apple Macintosh computers sit on double decked manufacturing lines, 1984
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The Undocumented Workers who Built Silicon Valley

Undocumented workers have been foundational to the rise of our most vaunted hub of innovative capitalism.
by Louis Hyman via Made By History on August 30, 2018

The Legacy of Black Reconstruction

Du Bois's "Black Reconstruction in America" showed that the black freedom struggle has always been one for radical democracy.
by Robert Greene II via Jacobin on August 27, 2018

When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers

When the blazing sun came up on the teenagers' first day of work, "everyone looked at each other, and said, 'What did we do?'"
by Gustavo Arellano via NPR on August 23, 2018

How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management

The connections between the two systems of labor have been persistently neglected in mainstream business history.
by Caitlin C. Rosenthal via Boston Review on August 17, 2018

The Growing Rift Between Workers and Environmentalists

Members of the working class were once among the environmental movement's best allies. That support has largely disappeared.
by Erik Loomis via Modern American History on July 27, 2018
Children working a machine in a textile mill.

The Campaign for Child Labor

Why did David Clark campaign to keep kids working in the early 20th century? For one thing, it benefited his interests.
by Livia Gershon, Bart Dredge via JSTOR Daily on May 28, 2018

Full Employment and Freedom

The fight for a full employment bill forty years ago offers lessons for supporters of a job guarantee today.
by David Stein via Jacobin on May 25, 2018

There Is Power in a Union

A new study overturns economic orthodoxy and shows that unions reduce inequality.
by Mike Konczal via The Nation on May 23, 2018
Railworkers watch dignitaries on an approaching train.
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How Slave Labor Built the State of Florida—Decades After the Civil War

Behind the whitewashed history of the Sunshine State.
by Bryan Bowman, Kathy Roberts Forde via Made By History on May 17, 2018

Can Consumer Groups Be Radical?

Historian Lawrence Glickman looked at the consumer movements of the 1930s to find out.
by Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on May 16, 2018

Hyman Minsky’s Views on the “Welfare Mess”

The intellectual father of the job guarantee movement saw it as a replacement for the social safety net.
by Matt Bruenig via People's Policy Project on May 13, 2018

The Long, Tortured History of the Job Guarantee

How liberals, over decades, worked to undermine a proposal that has long enjoyed public support.
by Peter-Christian Aigner, Michael Brenes via The New Republic on May 11, 2018
Birds eye view of the city of La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1867.

The Tacoma Method

How the Chinese community of Tacoma, Washington Territory was violently expelled in 1885, and what happened next.
by Andrew Gomez via University Of Puget Sound on May 1, 2018
Right to work states highlighted on a map.
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The Right to Work Really Means the Right to Work for Less

Why business interests have spent 70+ years crusading for right-to-work laws.
by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer via Made By History on April 24, 2018

What Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People” Can Teach the Modern Worker

Dale Carnegie treated the employee-employer relationship as a sacred, symbiotic bond.
by Jessica Weisberg via The New Yorker on April 2, 2018
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